U.S. Steel sees solid gain on Birmingham stock report

U.S. Steel sees solid gain on Birmingham stock report

Markets slipped a little bit Tuesday as the latest Fed announcement on interest rates loomed, but it wasn’t all doom and gloom on our Birmingham and Alabama Stock Report.

Behemoths Honda, U.S. Steel and Toyota led the way, rising 4.1%, 3.7% and 3.2%, respectively.

Close to home, Nucor was up 2.3% and Regions rose .8%.

Warrior Met Coal and Community Health Systems held up the bottom of the table, falling 3.8% and 3.5%, respectively.

Overall, U.S. stocks edged lower, and yields climbed on Tuesday as Wall Street waits for the Federal Reserve’s latest decision on interest rates.

The S&P 500 slipped 9.58 points, or 0.2%, to 4,443.95. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 106.57, or 0.3%, to 34,517.73, and the Nasdaq composite lost 32.05, or 0.2%, to 13,678.19.